Eimear McBride wins Women's Prize for Fiction

The Associated Press

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06/04/2014 01:09:20 PM MDT

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Author Eimear McBride who wrote the novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, holds the trophy on stage after winning The Baileys Women?s Prize for Fiction at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The Baileys Women?s Prize for Fiction is the UK?s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Authors shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Hannah Kent ? Burial Rites, left, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ? Americanah, second left, Jhumpa Lahiri ? The Lowland, centre, Audrey Magee ? The Undertaking, second right, and Eimear McBride ? A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, right, also shortlisted but not present was Donna Tartt ? The Goldfinch during a photocell ahead of the awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The Baileys Women?s Prize for Fiction is the UK?s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

The annual award, formally called the Baileys Women's Prize after its sponsor, is open to female writers in English from around the world. It was previously known as the Orange Prize.